# 030 Awaken
# 030 Awaken
I ran.
Folding space, I channeled every ounce of mana into physical enhancement and ran.
Faster than preparing a teleport with teleportation magic.
The passage was a straight line anyway.
This was definitely faster than readying a spell and teleporting out of the lair.
"Branches, awaken!"
At the same time, I roused the lair entrance's guardian creature to bind the enemies.
The creature, long lost in deep slumber, slowly began to move its black branches, but I slipped outside even faster than it could act.
Time elapsed: barely three seconds.
Outside the lair, beyond where the unicorn had been, I could see the enemies who had built up a forward position.
"You sons of—"
But.
As if they had anticipated this, the bastards vanished in an instant.
The traces showed they had already prepared a teleport in advance; by the time I arrived, it was already too late.
Had I used instantaneous teleportation myself, I would not have even noticed they had teleported.
"...The Church of the Twin Moon Goddesses' Execution Squad, huh."
I did not remember the name clearly.
But I remembered what I had heard through her.
—There is a group that always waits outside the lair and sends only adventurers in.
—Judging by the church garments they wear, they appear to be a faction of the Goddess Church.
—Seeing how they have persisted for decades already, they are likely an organization passed down through generations.
"Irritating gnats."
Killing them was easy.
But once they had vanished before my eyes, I could not kill them immediately no matter how much I wanted to.
Not because of Sharia, but because I could not afford to go chasing after the bastards right this moment.
"...If only I had the leisure, I could pursue them."
I swept my senses over the mana left on the ground.
If it were mana, I could trace it backward and follow them.
I could locate the coordinates right away, fly to wherever they had fled, and annihilate the bastards on the spot.
"Damn it."
But.
Regrettably, the power they had used was Divine Power.
"...They really came thoroughly prepared."
Divine Power could not be tracked.
If they had fled using Divine Power, they had surely fled to wherever a goddess statue stood.
"Should I just launch a raid on their main base?"
If I wanted to pursue them, assaulting the Church of the Twin Moon Goddesses' main base—the Holy Nation—was the answer.
As a rule, when underlings screwed up, the correct solution was to thrash their superiors.
"...But to go to the Holy Nation, I need preparations of my own."
However, that place was not one I could go to easily.
Others might not know it well, but a very dangerous existence resided there.
I swept my senses once more over the residual Divine Power on the ground.
If my prediction was not mistaken, her traces would undoubtedly remain within this Divine Power.
"...They're here."
It was familiar mana.
A familiar flow and scent of mana.
Only her mana was this lewd, yet it made my cock spring rigidly upright.
"Ha. So this is how you draw my attention, is it?"
The woman who had been pure white from head to toe.
"Holy Dragon, Haise Celestia."
The only existence among dragons who had burrowed deepest into the human world.
A being who wielded Divine Power in place of mana, whose Dragon Heart harbored Divine Power instead of mana.
Most likely one of the first dragons, and one of the mightiest who had lived for a truly uncountable span of time.
The only dragon to whom the Twin Moon Goddesses had personally bestowed their power.
And the dragon whose virginity I had taken.
Although I had subdued her once in the past, I had merely violated the Holy Dragon; afterward, I had neither killed her nor placed any restraint on her.
—I shall not place a Geas upon a dragon weaker than myself.
Because I had intended to violate her if she challenged me again.
"...I let her be all this time because she was bothersome. Tch."
Abruptly, I felt my wife's absence.
Whether Haise or some other woman, female, or mighty being came, my wife had always handled everything herself. Now, with my wife gone, it looked as though I would have to handle it myself.
—What? Change to a rear-entry position? Heh heh, that happens to be my specialty. ...But what are you doing?
—Enemies are coming in? Handle that roughly and focus on sex.
—While you're sucking my cock, why are your eyes glued to the surveillance magic stone? What? The Goddess Church? Deal with it roughly, look up, and just suck my dick.
I missed her—the woman who, even in the middle of sex, would use surveillance magic stones to dispatch subordinates and intercept enemies.
"...Haa."
With my wife gone, the gnats swarming around were gradually becoming visible.
Now I would have to clean up the mess myself, or raise another wife as outstanding and capable as she had been.
"...One more check."
Perhaps there was some sort of message left behind.
I read the Divine Power signal remaining on the ground.
"...Hm."
Perhaps this signal had reached me countless times before.
But what if my wife had erased it?
What if that was why it had never reached me until now?
"......Insolent bitch."
She was signaling me right now.
By sending her underlings again and again, she had, in effect, laid a trap to make me bolt out of the lair and come looking for her.
—Come fuck me.
Haise Celestia.
"Who wouldn't realize you're trying to subdue and confine-rape me in your own sanctuary?"
She was, right now, provoking me.
* * *
Meanwhile.
Behind the papal palace of the Church of the Twin Moon Goddesses.
The summit of the continent's highest mountain, Mount Whitehead.
Though it was a frozen mountaintop blanketed in white snow, at its center lay a verdant meadow, a wide lake, and a single cabin built of black wood.
The sight, as if a meadow and lake had been placed atop the frozen earth, was profoundly incongruous, yet the pure-white woman seated on the bench overlooking the cabin and lake quietly listened to the sound of the lake's water, her eyes closed.
However.
Riiip.
At the sound of something tearing, the woman let out a single sigh and rose from her seat.
Then, behind her, a long portal opened.
The one who opened and stepped through the gate formed of Divine Power was the very 'Inquisitor' who had appeared at the dragon lair's entrance moments ago.
"Your Eminence."
"Saintess."
The white-haired woman addressed as 'Your Eminence' gave the Saintess a wry smile.
"What was the outcome?"
"We failed. An unidentified woman appeared and massacred the mercenaries."
"A woman...?"
Her Eminence furrowed her brow.
"That elf bitch should be dead...?"
"She was a different existence from the 'high elf' you had spoken of. See for yourself."
The Saintess extended her hand forward.
"A record."
The Divine Power that flowed from her hand settled before Her Eminence, and Her Eminence confirmed with her own two eyes the scene that had occurred inside the lair.
"...It's yet another bitch."
A black-haired Grand Swordmaster.
A woman who moved as many as four swords freely at will.
"That human bitch from a hundred years ago? Or an elf who cut off her ears? No, no. A chest like this... I've never laid eyes on it before."
She was unmistakably strong.
"But he brought in yet another woman already?"
Her Eminence clenched and unclenched her hand in irritation.
"The instant that eyesore of a high elf bitch died, he picked up another woman? Ha, right, so once again he chose someone else instead of me, is that it...? I don't even register in his eyes, is that it?"
She seemed like a woman blinded by jealousy, speaking to herself as she poured out curses.
"Mm. ...That will take quite some time."
The Saintess merely closed her eyes gently and inserted her hand inside her own lower abdomen.
"Haaahm."
Riiip.
A fragment of skin peeled away.
The trace of something having pierced her abdomen vanished cleanly, and her smooth belly was revealed fully intact.
The trace of having been pierced by the unicorn.
That was a lie.
"Damn it.... A swordswoman, you say? That bitch who was a knight? No, no. That can't be. That bitch became a ghost. In that case...."
"It appears she is a newly acquired human."
"What?"
Her Eminence's expression twisted in an instant.
"How can it be a human again...!"
"......Well, is that not simply the Rape Dragon's taste? He does not discriminate between human and elf."
"Such...!"
Her Eminence began to grow genuinely enraged.
"If you're a dragon, you should have sex with dragons, so why do you keep screwing around with women of other species, damn it...!"
"Is a dragon not permitted to do it with other species?"
"Do humans have sex with dogs and pigs?"
"Hmm...."
The Saintess clapped her hands together.
"Indeed, from a dragon's perspective, a dragon copulating with a human would be bes—"
The Saintess hastily shut her mouth.
"However, Your Eminence. Why not simply close your eyes tightly and go find him yourself?"
"That is out of the question!"
Her Eminence shook her head in a resolute voice.
"Without this sanctuary, I cannot subdue that bastard! He must be lured here, I tell you!"
Sanctuary.
Mount Whitehead was Her Eminence's sanctuary.
Divine Power saturated the surroundings, and here, no matter what being came, it could not defeat Her Eminence—this white-haired dragon.
Even if a Demon God were to come.
"I will capture that bastard here. And I will make it so he can never leave this place again. Here, in this newlywed home, our happy life will begin. Fufu."
"...Is that so."
The Saintess simply gazed at Her Eminence with emotionless eyes.
"Well, so long as I achieve my own objective, it does not matter to me...."
Lick.
The Saintess wet her lips with her tongue.
"Once you capture the dragon, you must absolutely allow me to have my turn with him once. That was the promise, was it not?"
"...Of course."
Sanctuary.
The two women's secret conversation rode the wind and scattered into the empty air.
* * *
'It seems I left things in the kids' hands for far too long.'
Returning to the lair.
I felt deflated that the Goddess Church's group had escaped using a scroll.
"Have I been underestimated?"
She was searching for me right now.
Raising a clamor, begging me to violate her.
So she kept forming units to come and kill the unicorn, sending soldiers, and that unit had provoked me by sending mercenaries first.
Luring me out of the dungeon.
"...Should I just storm out again and flip everything over?"
I might not get to have sex often, but showing the Demon Dragon Lord's dignity once would not be bad either.
In the past, I had spent two hundred years rampaging and eight hundred years doing nothing but having sex, so could I not simply shake the world up magnificently for two hundred years this time as well?
"Nggh...."
What should I do?
Just as I was deep in thought.
"Master!"
From a distance, Sharia approached me.
Looking at her body, at her swaying breasts, I realized one thing.
Come to think of it, I still hadn't dispelled my polymorph.
I immediately dispelled my polymorph and welcomed Sharia.
"Stay back. Why are you coming out here?"
"...I was worried."
"What? Uwahaha!!"
Worried about the world's strongest dragon, she was.
Her wife qualifications were ample.
"Sharia."
"Yes."
"...You, don't you want to become a little stronger?"
One more reason to raise Sharia had arisen.
"......Yes."
Sharia took my hand and grinned.
"I want to become even stronger than what Master has shown me."
"Then let's go."
I scooped Sharia up in an instant.
"To have sex."
Going out was one thing.
Sex was sex.